Virtual Desktops for Mac OS X

TexTex writes "Riley Lynch has released Space.dock, which brings multiple desktops to Mac OS X. He's provided the code and binaries through SourceForce.net. It runs pretty well for being a 0.7 release and sure beats hiding all your applications and just opening the one you'd like." This is a cool little program. I usually question how much I really need virtual desktops, but I never fail to use them when I have them available.

Comments

How new is this?

[dhovis]

All the dates are 2001. According to everything I can find, this was released last year, and last updated for MacOS X 10.0 (retail).

I've heard it still works with the most recent OSX builds, but it only looks new because the site hasn't been updated for a year.

It's kinda inadequate

[jkujawa]

It hasn't been updated in a year.

When last I tried it, about a year ago, it didn't hide windows, but applications. Which meant that you couldn't have, say, terminal windows in more than one space. Which makes it completely useless for my purposes.

The underlying problem is that Apple hasn't released the API for the window manager, and no amount of dumping symbols from binaries, tracing, etc, seems to produce anything of value. I wish Apple would open up this window manager API, so that we can get a useful virtual desktop manager.

0.8 due shortly

[TexTex]

Yes the site and the program have some shelf-life. Riley's stated that version 0.8 will released "any day now" and has been in testing for the past few weeks. It should include a global hotkey which may make swapping between these desktops amazingly easy.